Vancouver, Canada - Sonic Environmental Solutions Inc. (SNV-TSX Venture Exchange) today reported that the Company has finished its first Ontario contract for the on-site treatment of PCB contaminated soil. The project was contracted and announced in October 2006, and the Sonic treatment system was deployed to the site in November, 2006. In excess of 600 tonnes of contaminated soil was treated ...

Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New Mexico Environment Department marked the completion of a new system to address contamination from a plume of chemicals in Grants, New Mexico. The chemicals, called chlorinated solvents, are believed to have come from a dry-cleaning business. The contamination spread through soils and a shallow aquifer under the city, which led the EPA to ...

Yellowknife, October 11, 2006 – Biogenie, a company which is specialized in the remediation of contaminated sites, recently inaugurated a contaminated Soil Treatment Facility (STF) on the premises of Yellowknife’s municipal landfill site. Built under a partnership approach with the City of Yellowknife, the STF will improve the contaminated soil management practices at the landfill site while ...

Beginning this week, the first phase of soil removal is beginning at the Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site in Plaistow, N.H. The lightly contaminated soil was previously excavated and/or relocated and stockpiled on site in order to construct a new temporary driveway and access road to the Site. The soil will be trucked off-site utilizing the newly-constructed temporary driveway and access road. A ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Shell Oil Company have removed more than 23,000 pounds of hazardous toxins from the Del Amo Superfund Site Waste Pits near Torrance, Calif. With EPA oversight, responsible parties Shell Oil Company and the U.S. General Services Administration built a soil vapor extraction system at the Del Amo Waste Pits and have been successfully operating it for one ...

Environmental monitoring should be undertaken with the best available technology within reasonable cost constraints (i.e. BATNEEC). However, the best technology is often the most expensive, so instrument rental is increasingly the favoured option. James Carlyle, General Manager at specialist instrument hire company Ashtead Technology Rentals, explains. The requirement for environmental ...

On Tuesday, Jan. 13, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public meeting about plans to clean up residual soil contamination at the Benfield Industries, Inc. Superfund Site in Waynesville, N.C. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Haywood Vocational Opportunities Building located at 172 Riverbend Street in Waynesville. Residual soil contamination associated ...

Microbubble technology developed at the University of Utah has the potential to boost a wide range of environmental clean-up efforts around the world. Uses include removing oil and gas byproducts from water, removing organics and heavy metals from industrial sites and removing harmful algae from lakes. "It's very gratifying to see our technology at work in the field", says Andy Hong, who ...

Blue Springs, Mo. (September 11, 2010) — Tarmac International Inc., a capital equipment manufacturer, has grown in sales of thermal soil treatment plants over the last three years. There is strong growth in orders for thermal soil remediation equipment throughout the world with one of the largest thermal soil remediation plants built having been shipped to Eastern Europe this ...

econ has taken on the challenge of finding a sustainable solution for the remediation of a group of contaminants. Yet still little understood but already of growing concern worldwide – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or short PFAS. Although research into the remediation of PFAS contaminated sites is still in its infancy, it is widely believed that thermal treatment is the only ...

Genesis Water Technologies, Inc. a vibrant USA based water/waste water treatment, filtration, and purification solutions manufacturer and supplier is excited to formally announce their new GWT series unique natural microbiological and enzymatic products for municipal and commercial/industrial soil remediation, water & waste water ...

Solutions-IES, Inc. and our licensee, EOS Remediation, LLC (hereafter referred to as Solutions-IES) provide the following update concerning challenges to two claims in U S. Patent No. RE40448 and the seven additional claims selected by the USPTO. Solutions-IES has elected to allow the deadline to file an appeal to ...

Olympia, Washington (ENS) - The Washington state Department of Ecology is proposing a $50 million, four year comprehensive cleanup and natural resource restoration plan for the Town of Skykomish, located about 50 miles east of Seattle. The plan calls for the BNSF Railway to excavate soil and treat groundwater contaminated by oil under Skykomish, fund natural resource restoration ...

OLYMPIA, Washington (ENS) - Work resumed this week to remove the wreck of the SS Catala from a beach at Ocean Shores. The Washington state Department of Ecology expects that all oil and any other pollutants will be removed by the end of the summer. Then the remains of the rusty, skeletal hull will be taken from the beach and recycled. The Catala came to rest on a spit at Damon ...

As concern rises over contamination of groundwater with perchlorate, a toxic substance widely used in arms manufacture, investigators are finding that one of the best remedies is literally under their feet. According to scientists at Penn State University and Regenesis (San Clemente, CA), many cases of perchlorate contamination can be eliminated simply and very cost-effectively by enhanced ...

Using the enhanced in-situ bioremediation technology Oxygen Release Compound (ORC®) and targeted contaminant source removal, remediation professionals restored and secured regulatory closure for 29 petroleum- contaminated sites across Indiana at an estimated cost saving of $75,000-$900,000 per site. The cleanups used an innovative and increasingly popular site closure strategy designed to achieve ...

Common drilling procedures for oil and gas, used widely around the world, produce a consistently increasing amount drill cuttings containing oil. Our VacuDry® technology (vacuum distillation) is designed to safely separate oil, water and mercury from the solids (including NORM), allowing reuse of the oil and safe disposal of the water, mercury, solids and NORM. Treatment of drill cuttings is ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to demolish a building, dig up contaminated soil and sediment, and treat the ground water at the Crown Cleaners of Watertown, Inc. Superfund site in Herrings, New York. The soil and sediment are contaminated with volatile organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and the ground water is contaminated with volatile ...

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